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Years after it's release, Freelancer remains a popular multiplayer platform with 600+ daily players from around the world. The most popular community modification to Freelancer is called Discovery, which adds dozens of new systems, ships, factions, and functionality to the game engine.

Play as police or military for your favorite house, or be that truly evil character you could never been in the single player module. Fly previously locked ships such as tranports, gunboats, cruisers, and battleships.

Simply purchase a copy of Freelancer then use your favorite search engine to search for "Discovery PTC" to get more information about the Discovery mod, and one of the most popular Discovery multiplayer servers, Discovery PTC.

I played and finished this game when it came out a number of years ago. I really liked it then. Only one of its kind. Since then, I gave it away and went on to other things. I recenlty bought it again for the same reason. AS far as I can tell, it's the only one of its kind. The only thing out there that's close is EVEonline, which is a MMO. But even that, I'm not quite as happy w/ as this. The two main reasons, this has no monthly fee to play, and fighting is in realtime. I'm not totally crazy about the game b/c it does get pretty redundant. Also, I would've liked to have had more things to do at the various bases, and have more things to do w/ my money besides buy bigger ships and more weapons. I think if they could ever work on those areas and make a Freelancer2, it would be a fantastic game. Some things I do like about it: Pretty easy learning curve, lots of systems to explore, little hidden things here and there in the systems that make it fun to fly around and see what I can find. I'm hoping someday someone will make the game w/ all the components I want in it.

When I was a kid one of my favorite games was Wing Commander: Privateer. It was the best of the Wing Commander series and I played it several times over until it no longer worked on whatever computer I owned, but I haven't been able to find a game since to replace it. Until now.

Freelancer it a great space adventure game without all the muck of being a flight simulator, which I am not very fond of. The only reason I didn't give the game five stars is because it has some long cut scenes of you attacking bases on foot, but doesn't actually let you go into FPS mode to fight the bad guys yourself.

I've played through the game twice, and then another 3 or 4 times with different 3rd party mods. I truly enjoy the game play, can play for hours and not get tired of it. And the online play opens it up even more!

Some Pros to consider:Fully customizable; you can get a huge assortment of ships and weapons, there are even weapons not part of the game play that are rare and powerful!You don't have to make money legally. You can pirate off of the infinite supply of NPC ships.You can make money from cargo, or from fighting/missions.Online play is great and allows for some fun times.Combat is intuitive and easy to learn.

A few cons:Unlike what the adds say, you CANNOT be EITHER good or evil! You can do evil things, and have people hate you, but the main story line is based only in the good.There are some situations and items that one would have to "cheat" to know exist, such as the type 10 weapons.

Overall i do love to play, online and off. The single player takes over a day of in game time, and that's if you rush it, knowing what to do, where to go, and how to get there.

I was skeptical when I first heard of this game but once I started playing it I was hooked. The story is engaging and the graphics are good. I was impressed by the amount of explorable space, the breathtaking scenes shown in each system and the fact that you can continue to play this game for practically forever, thanks to random encounters as well as the many trade missions you can complete. I think the best thing about this game is the mods though, adding mods means adding repeatability, and there are TONS of mods. I would recommend this game to fans of space based games. I would also like to recommend that any prospective buyer invest in a good joystick, it will make the game even better. Logitech makes some good (and cheap) joysticks.

You rarely notice the age lines and wrinkles in a good friend. In that sense "Freelancer" is a good friend. Yes, it feels a lot like Bard's Tale in space (without the snarky narrator) yet it continues to be a genuine time-waster. The game play is straightforward and the adventure not exceptionally variable, but the universe provides more than enough to discover.

Many add-on modifications are available (for free "as in beer") on the web and greatly enhance the fun of single-player mode. That's a good thing since it's getting hard to find multi-player servers available.

It's not the space game I've always wanted, but it's not suddenly deadly PVP (like Eve) either, and it's easily the best $10 I've purchased in a long time.